Sender: Murray-Rust Dr P <pmr1716@ggr.co.uk> Subject: Re: Draft Dna/Rna dictionaries? Just to say thank you very much for setting up this listserv. I am sure that it will make the project have the right interaction and I'd encourage contributions. I'll try to write soon about ideas that Syd and I have exchanged mail about on how we break the software down into discrete modules. I have been encouraging my colleagues in Glaxo about CIF and I hope that it would be OK if 2 of them subscribed to this listserv as they will be doing some of the actual coding. I'd be very grateful for the following basic resources: - latest (old-style) mmCIF. (+ list of core items). Basically what we'd like to do is scan through it and abstract the terms which represent data items (rather than semantics). Paula, is there a copy we can download? - one (or more) CIFs in the (old-style) format. I think we have at least insulin and HIVP, but also a lot at NDB? There is no doubt hat the *readability* of the CIF is seen as its most immediate attraction here. (Until CIF we are reducing to overloading the REMARK cards of PDB. Since we have to be evolutionary, I have suggested the following delightful construction: REMARK _exptl_crystal_grow_ph 7.4 It is semantically interesting, but very useful as it doesn't break the PDB reader and can also be grepped for CIF terms. As an interim measure and a way of converting people to the CIF dictionary it's a useful kludge. P. Thanks everyone very much for the meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Murray-Rust | "Nothing exists except atoms and empty pmr1716@ggr.co.uk | space; all else is opinion" (Democritos). Protein Structure Group, Glaxo Group Research, Greenford, MIDDX, UB6 0HE, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- End of forwarded mail from pmr1716@ggr.co.uk -- **************************************************************************** * John Westbrook Ph: (908) 445-5156 * * Department of Chemistry Fax: (908) 445-5958 * * Rutgers University * * PO Box 939 e-mail: jwest@rutchem.rutgers.edu * * Piscataway, NJ 08855-0939 * ****************************************************************************